Girlhood (2003)

Rating:

No Rating

Genre:

Documentary

Release Date:

October 29, 2003

Running time:

82 minutes

Cast:

Shanae, Megan

Director:

Liz Garbus

Producer:

Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy

Distributor:

Wellspring Media

Description: Coming-of-age stories of two troubled yet self-aware young girls from Baltimore. Shanae, ten years old when she was gang-raped by five boys, responded by drinking and using drugs, and then graduated to murder, with the stabbing death of a friend, at age 11. Megan, whose heroin-addicted mother abandoned her to turn tricks, ran away from ten different foster homes before being arrested for attacking another foster child with a box cutter. Both girls ended up in the Waxter Juvenile Facility, home to Maryland's most violent juvenile offenders. It is here that their journeys really begin.